Temporary binder



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Nov. 3, 1925.

TEMPORARY BINDER Filed June 16. 1922 NVENTOR ed; ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 3, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY o. iviEvEE,v or BELLEvILLE, NEW` JERSEY.

TEMPORARY BINDER.

Application filed June 16,-1922. Serial No. 568,883.

To all ywiz-0m t may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY C. MEYER, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Belleville, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Temporary Binders, ot which the following is a specification. y

lThis invention relates to a temporary binder, and an object of the invention is to provide a binder embodying principles which, altho particularly adapted for the temporary retention of maga-zines, pamphlets, and like periodicals, may as readily be used as a binder for manifold pads,loose leaf pocket note books, and other similar articles.

A. more detailed object is to provide a binder comprising a back part and opposite cover parts, and to provide the haelt part. with a simple improved gripping device ad justable to grip and securely hold the magazine, it being here noted that the terni magazine is used hereinafter as a broad term coniiprehensive of any and all of the various articles which may be held by this clamp device.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less specific than those referred to above, will be in part obvious and in part pointed out in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations.

arrangements of parts and applications ofy principles constituting the inventionn and the scope of protection contemplated will be indicated in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as a part of this specification, and in which I have shown merely a prefoi-red form of embodiment of the inventiou:--

Figure l. is a sectional view thru a binder constructed in accordance with this inveir" tion, the section being taken substantially upon the plane of line 1-l` of Fig. 2.

Figure 2 is an elevational view of the structure see-n in F 11.

Figure 3 is an enlarged transverse sectional vienY similar to the upper portion of `Fig. l, but showing the. gripping device in released position, the gripping position being indicated by dotted lines, and l Figure is an enlarged transverse det-ail section taken substantially upon the plane of line 1t-Fl of Fig. l. y

Referring to the drawings for describing in detail thev structure which is therein shown, the reference character L indicatesthe back pait of the binder, while the reference characters Gr and H indicate the opposite cover parts which are connectedwvvith 50" the back by hinge parts 5 so that the cover parts may be free to swing in thensual' n'lanner. v

BothA otl these parts may be covered with leather or other covering material, as indi- 05 cated by the reference numeral 6,so that a propel' and attractive exterior appearance isl provided. i

The back L preferably formed with a longitudinal groove 7 at its inner surface P into which the binder portion of the magazine may be received so that said portion will be at all times held straight and firm'.r rlhe back may be. formed ofany suitable material, but .is preferably fashioned from a strip of wood, or the like, and in forming the groove 7 opposite sideV wallportions S are provided which are intended to lap the opposite surfaces of the magazine, as will be clearly apparent from :inspection of Fig. 4L, At one end of the groove 7 is provided a gripping member 9, while at the opposite. end is a gripping member 10. Both of these gripping members are of substantially identical shape and size, andan essential feature of each is that it provides an inturne'd flange part ll shaped to provide comb teeth l2` the teeth of each member being directed to*-` ward the teeth of the other member and so spaced fiom the bottom wall of the `groove 7 that they are adapted to engage betweei'i the leaves, 'or sheets, of the magazine.

The gripping member 9 is held rigidy with the back L as by means of screws, or the like, as 13, which extend thru the main por-v tion of said member and into the material of the back. n

The gripping member l() is adjustable so that it may .be slid longitudinallyof the back between the two extremes, as indicated '10U by the full anddotted lines in Figli. In order to accomplish-this result the-main, orv body, portion, as 11i,v ot the member 10` is provided with a longitudinally extending slot l5 thru which extends a headed pin 16 projecting from' the back. The sliding Y inovement'fof the member 10 is guided by engagement of saidmember With the oppo-v site wall surfaces 17 of the: groove 7, and the pin 16 serves: merely to hold the member against displacement and to limit vits longi tudinal movement. v n

Preferably;v a wearplate 1 8 is arranged beneath the-member 10, being held by the pin 16 and by a second pin 19 spaced from the pin 16. The pin 19 may provide a button-shaped head 20 Vand the under surface of the portion 14: of the member 10 may -be yprovided with counter-sink 2l arranged to snap over` the head 2O when the member 10 `has been moved to gripping position, it

being understood that the portion 14 is resilient so as to effec-t the snap action when the parts are in proper position.

To use this device it is simply necessary to insert the binder portion of the magazine into the groove 7 and slide it longitudinally along said slot until the comb of the gripping member 9 penetrates into the adjacent edge of the magazine, andthen to slide the 'gripping member 10 inwardly so that the comb 12 thereof will enter the opposite edge of the magazine.v

To remove the magazine the member 10 may vbe withdrawn and the magazine thereafter disengaged from the member 9, or preferably the magazine itself may be gripped and slid longitudinally along the slot in a direction toward the member 10, thereby forcing the member 10 outwardly and disengaging the magazine from the member' 9. The magazine can then be drawn out of attachment with the member 10.

It will be appreciated that the back L, and the gripping members, may be of any desired width so that any number of magazines, or any thickneess of single magazine, can be held, also that the length of the binder 'portion of the different magazines may vary within appreciable limits without altering the effectiveness of this device.

The teeth 12 of the combs are preferably formed so that they are of uniform cross Vsection thruout the greater portion of their length and are pointed at their. ends only, substantially as indicated. By this means the number of sheets, or pages, held between each two adjacent teeth is determined by the distance between the two teeth points, as indicated, for instance, X and Y in Fig. 2. As the comb enters the magazine this number of sheets is forced together, and thus provides a strong frictional grip between the opposing surfaces of the teeth and thc surfaces 'of the group ofsheets. rlhis grip is effective as soon 'as the pointed vportion of the comb has entered and it willbe apparent that the remainder of the length of `the comb teeth provides essentially only 'against accidental vdisconnection and vat the sameV time enables'the use of the device upon magazines having vbinder portions of'diifei'ent lengths. K

fers jmany changes "could vbe 4made jin this construjtion 'without "departing from the sc'ope'of'the vinvention as vdefined in "the following claims, it is intended.- 'that all matter innanzi contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings, shall be interpreted as illustrative only and not inv a limiting sense. l

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. Abinder comprising a stiff back portion having a longitudinally extending groove therein adapted to` receive the binder part of al magazine and being of a length at least as great as said bindervpart of the magazine, a gripping member at one end of the groove to grip the adjacent endof the binder part of the magazine, a second gripping member at the opposite end of the groove to grip the opposite end of the binder part of the magazine, said second gripping' member being separately formed and being arranged to slide longitudinally in the groove of the back portion, said second gripping member consisting of an elongated piece of sheet metal of a width to be received between the side walls of the groove so as to bo guided by said sidewalls and having a longitudinally extending slot therethrough intermediate the side edges thereof, and a retaining member fiXedly carried by the back portion projecting into the groove and through said slotadapted to be engaged by the end walls of said slot to limit the sliding movement of the gripping member longitudinally along the groove, and said retaining member having a hea-d thereon beyond the slot to engage the upper surface of the gripping member to prevent upward displacement of the gripping member out of the groove, and thus retain the gripping member in proper sliding engagement within the groove.

2. A binder comprising a stiff back adapted to lie in engagement with the binder part of a magazine, a gripping member at one end of said' baclc having a comb part arranged to enter between the leaves of the magazine, a second gripping member at the opposite end of the back comprising a plate of resilient sheet metal disposed flat uponY said back having a portion bent upwardly therefrom provided with comb teeth extending over the plate adapted to enter between the leaves of the magazine, a retaining meinber fixed to the back and projecting through. a longitudinally extending slot of the plate and having ahead thereon to retan Ythe plate against lifting from the back while permitting limited longitudinal sliding movement of the plate, and Vsnap acting means Vinterengaging between `the 'ba-oli and the plate utili-zing the resiliency ofthefplate resisted bythe headof 'the retaining member Ato hold the plate i'nr.g r,rippir 1g position.

In testimony whereof I a'iiix my signature.

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